May 24, 2001

Memorial Day

They celebrate the murderers

Playing, eating, praying and thanking the dead

Marching in step toward another carnage

Fastidiously blind to the cause within of their deadly ventures

Meanwhile mothers continue to labor in the crucible of life

Giving humanity its next fragile generation

Their own pain, anxieties, ordeals and traumas little heeded by society

Often not even by their own husband

A female world will surround the newborn child

During its most helpless and formative years

And little boys grown up will need to downgrade women

For fear of their awesome, overwhelming power

Alienated from their female roots

Young men will believe there is reason to kill B negate a mother=s work

Meantime offering themselves for sacrifice

On the altar of their mother(land)

Their death to be celebrated

By next generations

Of Memorial Day party-goers.